December 2011
THE STRAIGHT PATH
Welcome Message
By Laila Ali
Asalaam alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu,
All Praise is Due to Allah swt Who Makes What He Wills
Possible and His Will is Just
Alhamdolillah Rabbil Alameen, All Praise is Due to Allah
swt
Brothers and Sisters,
I pray you are in a Place Most Pleasing to Allah swt in your
Individual Journey and that Allah swt Leads You to Deeper
Understandings and Leads you to the Representatives of Allah
swt, the Imams a.s, Mahdi a.s and Ahmed a.s,Inshallah,Mola
Ali Waaris.
The Month of Muharram carries many Painful Days.
These Days in which the Heavenly Family of the Last Prophet
of Allah swt was brutally tortured and murdered on the Plains
of Karbala and the Injustices Continued all the way to Shaam.
The crimes committed against Ahlul Bayt a.s are such that
shake the human from deep within the core.
The events of Karbala have ensured that Hussain a.s has
forever become the Standard of Righteousness and Yazid l.a
the face of evil.
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His plan of forcing Hussain a.s to give his Oath of
Allegiance, completely backfired on Yazid l.a. Today we cry for
Hussain a.s and curse Yazid l.a.
We owe everything we have to Hussain a.s for what he did
in Karbala, for if it was not because of his massive sacrifice,
Yazid l.a would have been the devil that would have lead many
off the Path of Islam and the true Islam, which is Submission to
Allah swt.
Yazid l.a was seeped in Haraam from the core, for
example, he was well known for his love of alcohol, so much so
that he is quoted to have made rhyming couplets about it.
We read in Tafseer Mazhari:
Moreover, he made alcohol Halal and these are his
couplets for alcohol:
'The treasure of alcohol is in a utensil which is like
silver and the branch of grapes are loaded by grapes
which are like stars, the depth of the branch of grapes is
alternate for the stars over sun, the east of this sun
(alcohol) is the hand of the drinker whilst the place for
the sunset (alcohol) is my mouth, thus, if one day alcohol
was made Haram in Ahmad's religion, then O
addressee, just take it